10-23-2005, 04:20 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Weren't nobody else tubin' or 'toonin', but Yuba is ideal for it. Many places to launch off clean gravel and generally manageable wind conditions. Like most Utah ponds, it can get "airy".[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]With the lake just filling after being emptied, I did not hit it much my first year back up here, but I am sure I will change that. I used to love Yuba, year round, when it was possible and probable to catch a hundred perch, all over a pound, and walleyes galore on most trips. We never fished for northerns apurpose, but caught quite a few on lures meant for walleyes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Those rainbows make it well worth a trip, if you can find them and time it right. Some days the bite is an evening thing. It has been that way recently, but you can still get some reaction bites on spinners and spoons, like we did Saturday.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have tubed just about every square foot of Yuba over the years. I look forward to getting back to some of my old favorite spots and seeing what they serve up. Once the perch population gets healthy enough to open the fishing and keeping, I predict a potential new state record within three years. That abundant minnow base right now will turn out some pigs.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We had planned to make a return trip as soon as possible. Looks like "iffy" weather next weekend, but anytime after that will be fine. Kent and I had a good trip in mid November last year, and the first ice showed up about two weeks later.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There were several years in the past that I had to push away floating sheets of ice on my last tubing trip to Yuba. Silly.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]With the lake just filling after being emptied, I did not hit it much my first year back up here, but I am sure I will change that. I used to love Yuba, year round, when it was possible and probable to catch a hundred perch, all over a pound, and walleyes galore on most trips. We never fished for northerns apurpose, but caught quite a few on lures meant for walleyes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Those rainbows make it well worth a trip, if you can find them and time it right. Some days the bite is an evening thing. It has been that way recently, but you can still get some reaction bites on spinners and spoons, like we did Saturday.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have tubed just about every square foot of Yuba over the years. I look forward to getting back to some of my old favorite spots and seeing what they serve up. Once the perch population gets healthy enough to open the fishing and keeping, I predict a potential new state record within three years. That abundant minnow base right now will turn out some pigs.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We had planned to make a return trip as soon as possible. Looks like "iffy" weather next weekend, but anytime after that will be fine. Kent and I had a good trip in mid November last year, and the first ice showed up about two weeks later.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There were several years in the past that I had to push away floating sheets of ice on my last tubing trip to Yuba. Silly.[/#0000ff]
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